I’ve used Lemmur in the past but lately I’ve realized that the web client is perfectly usable on mobile, much more so than most other social media. This is probably a testament to non-profit-driven development because the web client is really light, scales perfectly to an app-like form factor, there’s no weird behavior with the touchscreen instead of a mouse, and it also gives you all the features of the site instead of arbitrary not letting you do more advanced stuff because they want you to download the app. It also has the extra benefit that it syncs my browsing history to desktop so you pick up where you left off. Since making this latest account I have not felt the need to download an app at all and have been right at home using it from the browser.
Then again, I refuse to get the Reddit app and still use old.reddit.com on mobile (it’s just as annoying as you assume and you have to zoom in and out to click on stuff but I’m used to it by now, also I’m barely using Reddit anymore so that helps too) so maybe I’m somewhat unique? Just curious as to if anyone else exclusively uses the Lemmy web client on mobile and what your thoughts on it. Those on the other side, are there any killer features that apps give that I’m missing?
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Voyager app is pretty nice.
That’s what I use.
Voyager is my favorite, but I use mlem because my instance is a bit behind
I use the web client because I don’t like having a separate app for every single thing I do on my phone.
Yep the lemmy web is great on mobile (firefox for android). It’s so useful to open links and posts in new tabs and having browser history.
I just use the Lemmy web client on mobile. I also only used my web browser back in the Reddit days.
Never understood the appeal of apps. It’s text and images and occasionally a video or gif. There’s a perfectly good app for viewing those sorts of things, and it’s called a web browser.
Never understood the appeal of apps. It’s text and images and occasionally a video or gif
For people with slower mobile internet, specific app that cache those files would be useful.
Also helps me to avoid many open tabs, since apps generally don’t have that feature. When mobile browser tab management gets better, that may not be a big thing tho.
I see no need to install an app for what is essentially a web site.
It’s quite fantastic actually, especially since my instance uses
vaporwave-darkas its theme. 👍How can I see this theme?
If your instance supports it, you should be able to find it under your account settings.
For example, this is how it is on the blahaj.zone instance, on desktop (it’s pretty much the same on the mobile site, just more horizontally compressed to fit on vertical screen orientations):
Thanks, I’ll give it a go
If the lemmy web ui was as good as mastodons, I wouldn’t need a third party app
I use Jerboa, but yes, the web client is indeed awesome.
Praises to Dessalines, Nutomic and also all the other devs.I use the app because I routinely clear cache and cookies in the browser. Or sometimes use private tabs when I think the tab count will be too high.
With the app, the cache for it is separate from the browser and I can clear the browser cache and cookies with no issues.
The images are not downloaded each time and it’s faster as my mobile net is 3G most of the time.
It’s a reason why I use Infinity for reddit too.Web client for everything always.
Just uninstalled Jerboa after using Lemmy on Firefox. So smooth! 👍👍
I am forced to have so many apps, there is no way I would willingly sign up for an optional one.
The web client works!
